Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Auteur van The Adventures of China Iron
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Werken van Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Las niñas del naranjel (Spanish Edition) 2 exemplaren
Las niñas del naranjel 1 exemplaar
La Virgen Cabeza (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplaar
Diarios 1 exemplaar
Le viste la cara a Dios [Cuento] 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela
- Geboortedatum
- 1968
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Argentina
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Argentina
- Geboorteplaats
- San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Opleiding
- University of Buenos Aires
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 13
- Ook door
- 1
- Leden
- 244
- Populariteit
- #93,239
- Waardering
- 3.5
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 22
- Talen
- 3
- Favoriet
- 1
The book is a modern feminist reply to Martin Fierro. The main character is Martin's wife. When we meet her, her name is China, pronounced cheena - basically a common and somewhat belittling word for girl or young woman. China is an orphan and abandoned wife who no one ever bothered to name.
She meets up with an English woman named Liz and they go off on a magical adventure across the Argentina pampas - a prairie/plains landscape. Liz gives China a real name - Josephine, and also becomes her first love and true lover.
Liz and Josephine (later shortened to Jo) travel in what seems to be a magical wagon full of food, books, art, dishes and silverware, clothes of all descriptions, a barrel of whiskey, a giant bed - I can only imagine how big this wagon is. They are accompanied by Jo's dog Estraya and quickly collect a fellow traveler on the way Rosario - later shortened to Rosa.
For such a short book, there is a ton going on. Big themes of the violence and brutality of colonialism, Class differences between Spanish, English, Gauchos and Indians. Plenty vs want. Farming vs ranching.
And lots and lots of everybody having sex with just about everybody else. Lots of emphasis on expressions of gender.
Fair warnings - the book isn't over the top graphic, but it was a little more on the erotica side than I thought I was signing up for when I picked up the book. Alternating with the sex scenes, the violence is even more graphic and sometimes really disturbing.… (meer)